PyCon Namibia 2026 recap

The week reached pupils in Katutura, university students at Adaire Technology, more than 60 women and girls at Django Day, and over 120 professionals and developers at the main conference at NIPAM.

190attendees across the week

23speakers on the programme

14countries represented

Speakers travelled from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Greece, Uganda, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, India, the Czech Republic, Kenya, Angola, Nigeria and Ethiopia. The conference was organised by volunteers and the Python Software Association of Namibia, keeping registration fees low so that anyone who wanted to attend could.

The PyCon Namibia organising team

The programme

Date	Event	Venue	Audience
20 Feb	Django Day	NUST	Women and girls
23 Feb	Education Day	Adaire Technology	University students
24 Feb	Education Day	Jakob Marengo Tutorial College	High school pupils
25–26 Feb	Main Conference	NIPAM	All attendees

Django Day

PyLadies Namibia ran a full-day workshop for more than 60 women and girls, focused on building web applications with Python and Django. Sessions covered Django fundamentals, live coding and mentorship from professional developers.

The day was free for all participants, made possible by Django Day sponsor Green Enterprise Solutions and by NUST.

Pupils and speakers outside Jakob Marengo Tutorial College on Education Day — Education Day at Jakob Marengo Tutorial College, Katutura, 24 February 2026

Education Days

Rather than waiting for students to come to the conference, we took speakers into schools and universities. On 23 February, sessions at Adaire Technology covered open source in education, physical computing with Python and the BBC micro:bit, Python fundamentals and version control.

On 24 February the programme moved to Jakob Marengo Tutorial College in Katutura, where high school pupils from Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and schools around Windhoek spent the day on Python basics and hands-on micro:bit workshops. Most were funded to attend through the conference, with support from schools and parents.

Attendees raising their hands during a talk at NIPAM — Main conference at NIPAM, 25 to 26 February 2026

Main conference

Two days with two tracks in parallel: talks in the main hall and a workshop room for longer, hands-on sessions. Each day closed with lightning talks, where any attendee could take the stage.

Technical topics included Django, asynchronous Python, integration testing, search, real-time streaming and event-driven architecture, web scraping, AI and machine learning. Career and community talks covered soft skills, building a career in data, AI-assisted development and contributing to open source.

Full schedule

Django Day, Friday 20 FebruaryNUST, Windhoek

Time	Session	Speaker	Room
09:00–16:00	Workshop Django Day workshop	Elise Kasai	NUST, HTTPS room

Education Day, Monday 23 FebruaryAdaire Technology

Time	Session	Speaker	Room
09:00–09:25	Talk Your future, starting today	Daniele Procida	Main room
09:30–09:55	Talk Exploring the adoption and role of open source software in schools	Robson Kanhalelo	Main room
10:00–10:30	Break
10:35–10:55	Talk Python Foundations Made Fun with Turtle	Paul Mayero	Main room
10:35–13:00	Workshop Physical computing with Python and BBC micro:bit	Daniele Procida	Main room
10:35–13:00	Workshop How to teach the foundations of Python	Sheena O'Connell	Educators room
13:00–14:00	Lunch
14:00–16:00	Workshop From zero to hero with git, GitHub, and remote development environments	Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez	Main room

Education Day, Tuesday 24 FebruaryJakob Marengo Tutorial College, Katutura

Time	Session	Speaker	Room
09:00–09:15	Talk Opening	Daniele Procida	Main room
09:20–09:45	Talk Guest talk	Benjamin Himes	Main room
09:50–10:50	Talk Python Foundations Made Fun with Turtle	Paul Mayero	Main room
11:00–13:00	Workshop Physical computing with Python and BBC micro:bit	Daniele Procida	Main room
13:00–14:00	Lunch
14:00–16:00	Workshop Physical computing with Python and BBC micro:bit	Daniele Procida	Main room

Main Conference, Wednesday 25 FebruaryNIPAM, Windhoek

Time	Session	Speaker	Room
09:00–09:25	Talk Welcome	Elise Kasai	Main room
09:30–09:55	Talk Mastered development but still stuck? The hidden power of soft skills in your codebase	Sumaiya Nalukwago	Main room
10:00–10:25	Talk From Curiosity to Career: My Journey into Data Analytics	Azor Hijarunguru	Main room
10:30–10:55	Break
11:00–11:25	Talk asyncio isn't just typing await	Benjamin Himes	Main room
11:00–13:00	Workshop Building for the customer: Serving AI via WhatsApp using Python, Ngrok, Twilio and Gemini API	Brandon Bande	Room 2
11:00–13:00	Workshop Securing the Chain of Trust: Building Zero-Trust Python Multi-Agent Systems	Brayan Kai Mwanyumba	Room 3
11:30–12:10	Talk From Script Kiddie to Spotify: A 30-Year Journey	Gijs Molenaar	Main room
12:15–12:55	Talk Better Integration Testing with TestContainers	Paul Mayero	Main room
13:00–14:00	Lunch
14:00–14:25	Talk Emergency Monitoring Control Room with Python/Django	Alphons Koruhama	Main room
14:00–16:00	Workshop Humble Data	Aaron Muti	Room 3
14:30–14:55	Talk Your First Web Scraper: Writing Python Code That Keeps Working	Saurav Jain	Main room
15:00–16:00	Workshop Physical computing with Python and BBC micro:bit	Daniele Procida	Main room
16:00–16:30	Lightning Lightning talks	Open to everyone	Main room

Main Conference, Thursday 26 FebruaryNIPAM, Windhoek

Time	Session	Speaker	Room
09:00–09:10	Talk Opening	Elise Kasai	Main room
09:15–09:55	Keynote Playing the long game	Sheena O'Connell	Main room
10:00–10:25	Talk Automate the Boring Stuff: Python Scripts for Technical Writers	Chisom Uma	Main room
10:30–10:55	Break
11:00–11:25	Talk Advanced Search with ElasticSearch	Niek Mereu	Main room
11:00–13:00	Workshop Build, Deploy, Monetize: From code to cash in 2 hours	Saurav Jain	Room 2
11:30–12:10	Talk Vibeops: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly with AI assisted coding in Python and Beyond	Natu Lauchande	Main room
12:25–12:55	Talk From Scoreboard Table to WebSocket Stream with Django	Samuel Nduw	Main room
13:00–14:00	Lunch
14:00–14:25	Talk Ship Faster, Break Less: Building Django Tests with AI	Tinomudaishe Ndhlovu	Main room
14:00–16:00	Workshop From zero to hero with git, GitHub, and remote development environments	Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez	Room 2
14:30–15:55	Talk Event-Driven Conversations: Building a Scalable Python Messaging Architecture on Top of Matrix.org	Robbins Kariseb	Main room
15:00–15:55	Workshop Physical computing with Python and BBC micro:bit	Daniele Procida	Main room
16:00–16:30	Keynote The programmer's imagination	Daniele Procida	Main room
16:30–17:00	Lightning Lightning talks	Open to everyone	Main room

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Thank you to our 2026 sponsors

PyCon Namibia is a non-profit conference run entirely by volunteers. Django Day, the Education Days and the main conference exist because these organisations and individuals chose to fund them.